Management

Soundview Executive Book Summaries® publishes summaries of the best business books of each year on management issues including change management, managing people, crisis management, managing a virtual workforce, project management and more. Browse our extensive collection of management book summaries to solve your most difficult issues.

How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (Without Money or Muscle)

by Deepak Malhotra

In Negotiating the Impossible, Harvard professor and negotiation adviser Deepak Malhotra shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible.

How the Best Companies Survive the 9 Traps of Winning

by Robert J. Herbold

Don't let success put your company on the road to ruin. People and entire companies can easily fall into the trappings of success. Robert Herbold wrote Seduced by Success in an effort to help individuals and organizations become successful and stay successful. This summary will show you how to look past your current success or stability and constantly probe for new and better ideas and ways to do things.

The UPS Approach to Business

by Mike Brewster, Frederick Dalzell

We see them everywhere –– those brown trucks delivering their share of 14 million parcels handled daily. To most people, UPS is a reliable fact of life. But to well-informed businesspeople, Big Brown is a company to emulate.

The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business

by John Newhouse

A Soundview Featured Book ReviewTwenty-five years ago John Newhouse's book The Sporty Game examined the high-stakes business environment that exists in the manufacturing and selling of large commercial aircraft, commonly referred to as LCAs. A quarter of a century later, that book is considered a classic about the airplane business. Now, in Boeing Versus Airbus, Newhouse focuses his sights on the intense competition between the world's two largest manufacturers of passenger airplanes.

How to Create the Nimble Organization

by Daryl Conner

Manage the inevitability of change by becoming a nimble organization, advises the author, the president and CEO of a research-based consulting firm. In this summary Conner builds on the foundation established in his first book, Managing at the Speed of Change, to help organizations and their employees recognize and successfully face the today’s flood of change.

Finding and Keeping Good Help for Your Entry-Wage Jobs

by B Jack Gebhardt, Steve Lauer

Demographic changes mean that it will get harder and harder to fill those entry-level jobs. Lauer, who owns a chain of Subway sandwich shops, shows you how he finds good, loyal people in this tough hiring market.